Hacked John Podesta, who is also Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, said there is a “reasonable belief” that Julian Assange passed information to Donald Trump in connection with Russian-directed e-mail hacking of Democrats in an attempt to influence the U.S. presidential election. He also said that the FBI is investigating a hack of his Gmail account.

While Hillary Clinton has little to worry about in terms of a mass audience reaction to the ongoing leaks from the Podesta emails, conveniently overshadowed by the relentless media furore over the Trump Tapes at a 15 to 1 ratio in terms of non-stop media exposure…

… overnight the man in the middle of the Wikileaks scandal, Hillary’s campaign manager John Podesta slammed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday for helping Republican rival Donald Trump in the White House race, while accusing Moscow of being behind the hack.

While so far there have been no major damaging revelations, aside from Hillary’s admissions in her Wall Street speech transcripts that she had one “persona” for public appearances, and a vastly different one for well-paid private ones, the massive leak does lift the veil on Team Clinton’s inner workings.

Cited by AFP, Podesta described the timing of the leak, which came late on Friday, as a “curious coincidence”, coming shortly after The Washington Post published a shock video of Donald Trump making lewd boasts about groping women in 2005. Alternatively, one can say that the release of the Trump tapes came as a “curious coincidence” just as Wikileaks would reveal what much of the right of center audience was so interested in.

The veteran political aide, who served in the Obama and Bill Clinton administrations, suggested that the release “was their countermove to try to take the public’s attention off the despicable things that Donald Trump said on that video.” Again, one can counter with precisely the opposite, and judging by the amount of media time dedicated to each, it appears Wikileaks lost.

Pressed on why Clinton has had a “softer” attitude in her private remarks to Wall Street about the need for regulations after the 2008 financial crash than she did as a candidate, Podesta disagreed. “What she says in private and what she says in public is that she will crack down on Wall Street abuses,” he said. “She said you know your industry best. That doesn’t mean regulators can’t crack down on them.”

Podesta declined to answer most questions about those e-mails, saying, “I’m not confirming the validity of the e-mails.”

“Whether that was Mr Assange’s decision to try to help Mr Trump or whether there was some coordination involved, I have no way of knowing. I’m just saying, it’s an awfully curious coincidence that it happened virtually as soon as the water temperature was moving to a boil,” Podesta told journalists aboard a campaign plane traveling from Miami to New York. Padesta added: “We can’t confirm the accuracy of those leaks, we know that the Russians might have passed on doctored documents.”

“I would say that the Russian interference in this election and their apparent attempt to influence it on behalf of Mr Trump should be of utmost concern to all Americans.”

Translation: the leaks were correct, and while we have no idea who is behind them, we will just blame the Russians – after all, how can they possibly retaliate with diplomatic conditions already dreadful.

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